Sumanasekera, Gamini U., Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA.

Received Ph.D. from Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA; MS from Bowling Green State University, BowlingGreen, Ohio, USA); B.Sc. (Physics, Honors) from University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. Expertise in condensed matter physics, materials science, nanomaterials, nanoelectronics, and thin-film synthesis (especially via chemical vapor deposition and chemical vapor transport). Author of ~300 publications with over 10,000 citations (h-index ≥ 49). Notable research includes charge transfer in diamond, graphene and carbon nanotube growth and transport properties.